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for others. Five of their remaining horses were tested and found 

 1o be glandered. The owners, refusing to destroy the horses, they 

 were kept in quarantine until fall, when consent was obtained to 

 have them destroyed. Many farm horses that had heen fed in the 

 barn contracted the disease. Twenty horses were killed as a result 

 of this outbreak. The stables were cleaned up and disinfected. 



During the summer of 1909 a farmer living near Scarville pur- 

 chased a horse recently shipped into the state from the west. The 

 animal died, supposedly from distemper. This man's neighbor 

 came upon the premises with his horses to help put in the spring 

 crops, thereby infecting his horses with glanders, as it proved later 

 that the horse mentioned as having been shipped from the west, 

 was glandered. A member of the board of trustees, who had at- 

 tended a lecture at the Farmers' Institute at Lake Mills' by the 

 State Veterinarian some time previously, .at which lantern slides 

 showing specimens of the lesions of glandered animals had been 

 exhibited, first declared the disease glanders. He called on the de- 

 partment for investigation, and on diagnosis we verified the opinion 

 expressed as to the identity of the disease. Seven horses were 

 destroyed in this locality as a result of this infection. 



Cases of glanders were discovered at Rock Valley and Wood- 

 burn. The usual suppressive measures were taken, and quarantine 

 established. 



A serious outbreak of glanders occurred near Cartersville, Cerro 

 Gordo county, the present year. A number of horses were killed 

 by consent of owners, and many more examined and quarantined. 



ANTHRAX. 



On August 10, 1909, we were notified of the presence near Rem- 

 sen, Plymouth county, of a disease believed to be anthrax. A repre- 

 sentative of this department was sent to investigate the matter. He 

 reported the purchase, by John Barnable, in Union township, of a 

 bull from west of Le Mars. The animal died suddenly about two 

 weeks later. The following day a cow died in an adjoining pasture, 

 which was being rented by three men. The cow was skinned. It 

 was thought that this cow had been struck by lightning. On the 

 third day thereafter, several cattle died in each pasture. The dis- 

 ease was then diagnosed as anthrax. Vaccine was obtained and used. 

 Sixteen cattle had died up to August 11 and later many more died. 



